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Google tries out offline Gmail feature

Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.

CNNMoney: The hidden cost of Google Apps

What happens when a business throws out its scheduling and collaboration tools and replaces them with Google's low-cost, online business software? To find out, we at Blumsday migrated our entire shop of roughly a dozen employees and contractors to test out Google Apps.

Fortune: Google's tough sell to Corporate America

Steve Skinner, the head of information technology for a big Bay Area real estate agency, recently got his umpteenth call from Google. Would Skinner be interested in buying a package of e-mail, word processing and other software known as Google Apps for his company's 1,300 employees?

Fortune: Google's biggest threat? Itself

As Google's CEO, one of Eric Schmidt's duties is to represent the company in public. Co-presidents and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin limit their appearances, presumably because they value their privacy, but also because they seem to prefer it that way. Less time glad-handing means more time thinking big thoughts, working with their fellow Google engineers and, frankly, kitesurfing and other recreational activities.

Ditch your PC and live the shared life

Do you think you will be using a personal computer for the rest of your life?

CNNMoney: Is Google's free ride as fast as Vista?

How's this for irony? Choosing the software that's supposed to make our work lives easier is becoming horribly complex. Market hegemon Microsoft recently unleashed its most impressive riffs yet on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest, packaged as Office 2007 and built for the new Vista operating system. Meanwhile, Internet search-giant Google has come to market with a reliable and low-cost suite of web-based tools: word processing, spreadsheets, calendar, e-mail, and more, all packaged as Google Apps.

Fortune: Office wars: Google vs. Microsoft

Competition in the online office software market is heating up as Google and Microsoft go head to head and a host of startups seek space on the virtual desktop.

FSB: Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 2007

Here is a quick look at the how Google Apps and Microsoft's Office 2007stack up against each other.

CNNMoney: Google buying Web security firm

Internet bellwether Google agreed to purchase Postini, a privately held provider of Web communications security, for $625 million in cash, the company announced Monday.

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